Re: tlug: TL 2.0 Released/Members Discount!

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Kei Furuuchi wrote:

> Scott Stone writes:
>  > On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, Cliff Miller wrote:
>  > 
>  > > Hi,
>  > > 
>  > > I have only been on the TLUG mailing list a few months now, so I'm not 
>  > > really sure of the policy, but I hope that you don't find Scott's
>  > > blatant advertisement for TurboLinux offensive.... One of his few
>  > > faults is his over-enthusiasm. :)
>  > > 
>  > > Again, apologies for the crass posts.
>  > > 
>  > > Cliff
>  > 
>  > They haven't minded before, which is why I did it this time.  I'd
>  > appreciate not being put down in front of the whole group, especially by
>  > my employer, in the future... I know you didn't mean to, but.. I don't
>  > want people to think that I"m some kind of out of control freak, you know?
> 
> Let me use another "Japanese" card again.
> If you are a Japanese and work for a company, occasionally,
> you go to the management seminar where you learn that 
> managers do not admonish subordinates in front of peers
> since this is an act of hurting a pride. Then you witness
> the same scene repeatedly in real life. managers scorn
> subordinates in front of public in order to control and
> intimidate them. This effect is so super this actually shut
> them up. If you are a monkey, this is an act of mounting.

Well, Cliff and I are both Americans, so... anyway, I didn't intend to
send that original message to the whole list - I meant to just send it to
Cliff, but I hit the wrong key in pine and didn't notice it until it was
too late.

As for the monkey analogy, I'm sure that either Cliff's or my own wife
would be able to tell quite a few tales, but.... 'mounting' ??  what
exactly did you mean by that word?

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
               <sstone@example.com>
Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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